Visions and missions of the Bay Area's Top Workplaces of 2012

By Linnea Smith-Jessup Top Workplaces

Posted:
06/15/2012 12:14:58 PM PDT

Updated:
03/14/2013 04:09:50 PM PDT

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Livermore Valley Joint Unified School District (LVJUSD) : Our vision reflects our core values and guides our work in living our mission to help each student to graduate with the skills needed to contribute and thrive in a changing world, honoring our non-negotiables and attaining our goals.

Actuate Corporation: Actuate helps organizations succeed in increasing customer satisfaction and operational performance by ensuring their employees, customers and partners have the information they need to make sound business decisions and affect positive change.

Appirio: In the cloud computing gold rush, Appirio is the picks and shovels.

Arena: Arena helps innovative manufacturers bring better products to market faster with a suite of cloud PLM applications that enable engineering, manufacturing and their extended supply chains to work better together-from first prototype to full-scale production.

Bank of Commerce Mortgage (Simonich Corporation) : Bank of Commerce Mortgage is to be the premier provider of superior mortgage services and products to the communities in the markets we serve. We will develop profitable business strategies that allow us to enhance our relationships and build new ones.

California Water Service Company: California Water Service Company is committed to being the leader in providing traditional and innovative utility services to the customers and communities it serves.

Celestica, Inc. : At Celestica, we are solid partners who deliver informed, flexible solutions to enable our customers' success. We are adaptive and agile, and help our customers anticipate and prepare for unexpected changes.

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Citrix Systems, Inc. : Citrix is the strategic technology company transforming how people, businesses and IT work and collaborate in the cloud era. Everything we do supports our belief that work should be fun, and that working hard while still enjoying life is essential to our success.

Curtis Instruments: (abridged) Our people are our most important resource. Our customers are the source of our well-being: every person in the company is responsible for exceeding customer expectations. We strive to design and manufacture only one level of quality - the highest. As a global company, we recognize that strength comes from the diversity of our culture. Creativity in our engineering and in all aspects of our activities is the most essential ingredient of our progress.

Del Grande Dealer Group: Our company follows the value statement of Project 100: is "our commitment to provide 100% customer satisfaction to 100% of our customers -100% of the time!" This vision is spread throughout the organization and affects how we treat one another. We have a "10 Foot Rule" that encourages us all to acknowledge, smile, welcome or catch up with any employee or customer within 10 feet of us it really helps to foster our family-like atmosphere.

Diablo Valley Oncology Hemotology Medical Group: Our goal is to be the leader in the delivery of comprehensive, state-of-the-art oncology and hematology care by providing the latest in technology, therapies, techniques and clinical trials all in one convenient location.

East Bay Agency for Children: East Bay Agency for Children builds brighter futures and stronger communities by promoting the health, safety and educational success of our children and youth, and their families.

Fehr & Peers: Our mission is to empower every employee to develop effective and innovative transportation solutions that improve communities. Our internal core values and guiding principles are fairness, generosity, respect and openness, personal growth and self-improvement in a collaborative environment with the flexibility that supports life balance.

Fremont Bank: Fremont Bank is one of the Bay Area's leading financial services provider for a very good reason; we care. Our commitment to serving our community has produced an outstanding, diverse team of professionals, providing top-quality products and services.

Hitachi Data Systems Corporation: Hitachi Spirit is what distinguishes us as the employer and partner of choice. It's more than our foundation, more than a poster on the wall. It's how we operate every day, how we get things done. It's who we are. The Hitachi Spirit has three parts: Wa (Harmony - Trust - Respect), Makoto (Sincerity - Fairness - Honesty - Integrity), and Kaitakusha-seishin (Pioneering Spirit - Challenge). These principles give our work a greater meaning.

Hyatt Regency San Francisco Airport: We seek out others who share our passion for service and welcome them to join the Hyatt family. We extend a friendly, professional and warm welcome to Hyatt. We create a caring and rewarding environment, fostering a fully engaged workplace. We provide development opportunities that enable our people to achieve their personal and professional goals.

Hyatt Regency Santa Clara: We provide authentic hospitality. We make a difference in the lives of those they touch everyday - that is our definition of hospitality. We do this in an environment that respects all people and all ideas. We do it in an efficient way that leads to positive results.

iD Tech Camps: iD Tech Camps and iD Teen Academies strive to make technology education fun and accessible. Our programs teach tech skills in a hands-on environment and provide students with the hard and soft skills necessary for success. We go all-out to ignite new interests and ideas, empower students while delivering the highest caliber hands-on instruction exploring relevant software and curriculum.

Integrated Archive Systems: [We are] a data management solution provider, specializing in Enterprise Storage - providing environmentally responsible solutions for data storage, high availability, security, backup and recovery, clustering, networking, virtualization, disaster recovery, cloud infrastructure, RAID and SAN and NAS. We are 100% customer focused 100% of the time. Our customers, partners and colleagues enable us to get up and come to work every day. The reason we do so is because we whole heartedly enjoy the work we do, the people we serve and the company we work for. Amy Rao, our founder and CEO is an incredible gift, a brilliant leader with an enormous heart and a passion for both business and philanthropy. IAS is a place unlike any other.

Integrated Device Technology (IDT) : Our vision is for every digital processor to connect to the real world through IDT silicon. We empower our employees to be creative, innovative and collaborative. We promote an innovative mindset, and drive the intrapreneurship spirit.

Livermore Valley Joint Unified School District (LVJUSD) : Our vision reflects our core values and guides our work in living our mission to help each student to graduate with the skills needed to contribute and thrive in a changing world, honoring our non-negotiables and attaining our goals.

Loring Ward: Loring Ward was founded with one simple, straight forward mission: to serve and support independent Advisors and their clients. We are committed to helping independent advisors become the most trusted and valued professional in their clients' lives.

Nelson Family of Companies: We at the Nelson Family of Companies believe that the long-term health of our company depends on maintaining the high standards of business conduct, integrity, quality and respect for the people within and without our organization.

NetSuite: To provide web-based integrated business systems with the power of traditional applications used by the world's largest companies, but at a fraction of the cost and complexity.

One Workplace: We create spaces that transform people's lives.

Rambus, Inc. : At Rambus, our mission is to continuously enrich the end-user experience of electronic systems. We have based our business on a set of core values that all of our employees live by Technological Leadership, Innovation, Customer Success, Integrity and Accountability to each other, our customers, shareholders and to others who partner with or rely on us.

Rocket Fuel: We're aiming to become the leader in digital advertising - to be the best partner our customers have ever worked with, and to become the best company our employees have ever worked for. We've built our culture on cutting-edge technology and back with it with a relentless pursuit of customer success and happiness - we try to make our customers everyday heroes, every day.

SAP: SAP helps companies of all sizes and industries run better. From back office to boardroom, warehouse to storefront, desktop to mobile device, SAP empowers people and organizations to work together more efficiently and use business insight more effectively to stay ahead of the competition.

Sereno Group Real Estate: At Sereno Group, we believe it is our social responsibility to set in motion a self-sustaining process of continuous improvement; an evolution into excellence resulting in the development of "Socially Responsible Real Estate" as a business practice.

Simply Hired: Our mission is, "To help people find a job they love". Beyond our mission, we believe that everyone can find a job they love and if they focus on mastery, results will follow. Your contribution matters. Your title doesn't.

Starlight Community Services (STARS Inc. ): SBHG brings vision, passion, and humanity to behavioral healthcare, social services, special education, and other human services by helping individuals and families use their skills and strengths to achieve positive change, resiliency, and lasting wellbeing.

Stanford University: Through the contributions of Stanford faculty, researchers and students, we seek to change the world by finding solutions for some of the world's most complex problems, educating our students to become leaders of the world they are inheriting, and provide world-class patient care.

Stonebrook: Healthcare Center: Stonebrook helps the community to "Live your life to the fullest" through striving to be the preferred provider of post-acute and long-term care services in Contra Costa County.

Stryker: At Stryker, we strive to be the world's most admired, fast-growing medical technology company. We do this by making a difference by caring for the caregivers, helping them maintain order in their organizations and restore health to their patients.

Taos Mountain: To be the most sought after professional IT consulting and services company in the Nation Mission Statement: To deliver outstanding value to our clients by providing the insight & technical expertise to achieve sustainable operational excellence in IT.

Tesla Motors: Tesla is on a mission to accelerate the world's transition to electric mobility with a full range of increasingly affordable electric cars.

Viasystems Group, Inc.: Doing the right thing in all that we do at Viasystems creates an environment where people are the source of our success. Leadership and excellence in performance are sought and rewarded. Customers are the reason we exist and our products and services reflect our dedication to quality, innovation, and value.